Hacking a friends list feed for LiveJournal

Paula Valença aka phantas

Because procrastination is an art

... and we all have more than 143 friends on LiveJournal (some of which we have actually met) ...

WHERE IS THE RSS FEED BUTTON ON THE LJ FRIENDS PAGE???

Woteva, I’ll do a script of my own... I mean, how long can that take, right?

$ cvs ... *scared scream*

erm, what do you mean that you can’t access friends’ entries via the API? (nor much anything related)

ARG ARG BML ARG ARG S2 ARG ARG

solution: fix style, clean (X)HTML, XPath, plain old dirty parsing and extraction, LWP for authentication

tidy + HTML::Tidy (HUGE)

why LJ does not provide a feed

bad bad code... no cookie

CGI (see above)? cookies?

still... it works... [DEMO]

Problems and ToDos

http://www.paulavalenca.org/tech/